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The Absolute Beginner's Guide to Character Animation in Unreal Engine 5 and UEFN
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Introduction to Character Animation in Unreal Engine 5 & UEFN
What Animation We Will Create - Preview
Download and Install Unreal Engine 5
Download and install Unreal Editor for Fortnite (UEFN)
Create Your Project Using the 'Animation Template'
Download Audio File for Project
Create Sequence and Import Audio
Create the MetaHuman Identity & MetaHuman Performance Assets
The Magical, Amazing Audio-to-Animation Tool
Export the animation from the MetaHuman Performance
The Character Device - All the Magic Starts Here
The Facial Control Rig - Baking the animation to the Control Rig
Let's Add the Body Animation
Create a NEW animation combining the facial and body animations
Facial Animation: Let's add blinks
Eye Movement: one of the keys to a great animation
Correcting the tongue, if needed
BODY ANIMATION: First, let's activate the IK Hand/Arm controls
Editing the Body Animation: Let's start with the head
The Body Control: Inverse Kinematics is cool!
How to blend multiple animations together seamlessly
How to fine-tune the blend
Mixamo Animations by Adobe - Let's download our first animation
Importing and retargeting our Mixamo animation into our project
Retargeting our Mixamo animation to the Fortnite character
Resource Files for this section
QuickMagic AI: Let's create our first AI mocap!
Download our animation and import it into our UEFN project
How to retarget the QuickMagic animation to the Fortnite character
Create new Level Sequence & add character with animation
How to create professional sounding dialogue tracks
Congratulations - you've completed the course!
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Introduction to Unreal Engine 5 | Unreal Editor for Fortnite
Introduction to Character Animation in Unreal Engine 5 & UEFN
Preview
What Animation We Will Create - Preview
Preview
Download and Install Unreal Engine 5
Preview
Download and install Unreal Editor for Fortnite (UEFN)
Let's Create Our UEFN Fortnite Project
Create Your Project Using the 'Animation Template'
Download Audio File for Project
Create Sequence and Import Audio
Let's Animate Your Fortnite Character!
Create the MetaHuman Identity & MetaHuman Performance Assets
The Magical, Amazing Audio-to-Animation Tool
Export the animation from the MetaHuman Performance
The Character Device - All the Magic Starts Here
The Facial Control Rig - Baking the animation to the Control Rig
Let's Add the Body Animation
Create a NEW animation combining the facial and body animations
Animation Techniques in Unreal Engine 5: Refining and Editing an Existing Animation
Facial Animation: Let's add blinks
Eye Movement: one of the keys to a great animation
Correcting the tongue, if needed
BODY ANIMATION: First, let's activate the IK Hand/Arm controls
Editing the Body Animation: Let's start with the head
The Body Control: Inverse Kinematics is cool!
Blending and Layering Animations
How to blend multiple animations together seamlessly
How to fine-tune the blend
MIXAMO! Want high-quality animations for FREE? Mixamo to the rescue!
Mixamo Animations by Adobe - Let's download our first animation
Preview
Importing and retargeting our Mixamo animation into our project
Retargeting our Mixamo animation to the Fortnite character
QuickMagic AI Motion-Capture: No mocap suit needed!
Resource Files for this section
QuickMagic AI: Let's create our first AI mocap!
Download our animation and import it into our UEFN project
How to retarget the QuickMagic animation to the Fortnite character
Create new Level Sequence & add character with animation
How to create professional sounding dialogue tracks
How to create professional sounding dialogue tracks
Congratulations on finishing the course!
Congratulations - you've completed the course!
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